pleasure craft

Example Sentences

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During the day, Catalina is filled with ferries, pleasure craft, cruise ships and cargo vessels.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

During the nine-day evacuation, military, transport, fishing and service vessels, as well as pleasure craft, were used to carry soldiers, with ships flying British, French, Belgian, Dutch, Polish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish flags.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2023

They had been aboard a pleasure craft, along with 19 other people, when it was hit by a fierce storm on Lake Maggiore on Sunday evening and swiftly sank.

From Reuters • May 31, 2023

Each vessel is represented by a colored icon, including dark blue for passenger vessels, orange for fishing vessels, and purple for yachts and pleasure craft.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022

At the northern end of the lake, hundreds of pleasure craft were converging on the same spot.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown